Insignia’s Jeode platform selected by Quantum

BANGALORE: Quantum Corporation and Insignia Solutions jointly announced that Quantum will license Insignia's Jeode Embedded Java-compatible software technology for future development of embedded intelligence in storage devices and systems. Under the terms of the agreement between the companies, Quantum will initially pay Insignia nearly $3 million for a development-use license, non-recurring engineering and maintenance fee, and pre-paid royalties.

"The work Insignia is doing has tremendous potential to bring the distributed computing benefits of Java technology to storage devices and systems," said Quantum's DLT and Storage Systems Group (DSSG) President Peter Van Cuylenburg. "We evaluated the Jeode platform against the many different available technologies. Jeode clearly stood out from the pack, demonstrating performance, robustness and functionality that make it particularly well-suited to the needs of the storage industry."

This news comes simultaneous to Insignia’s announcement that it has completed Sun Microsystems' EmbeddedJava Technology Compatibility Kit

(TCK) self-certification process. The newly-shipping 1.5.1 version of the Jeode



platform is now the first independently-developed implementation of Sun’s EmbeddedJava specification to pass the extensive TCK test process to ensure 100 percent EmbeddedJava technology compliance.